Janos,

I'm aware of Ocram. I believe it is a cooperative multithreading system, 
and doesn't appear to have been updated in a year. Do you know whether 
anyone is actively using it?

Stephen

On 2/14/2014 4:37 PM, Janos Sallai wrote:
> There's also Ocram:
>
> https://github.com/copton/ocram
>
> Make sure you read the paper at
>
> http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/publ/papers/bernauer_ipsn2013.pdf
>
> Janos
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Stephen Schaub <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am doing pure research on TOS threading solutions. There is no particular
>> application at the moment. I was drawn to tosthreads as a reference
>> threading solution because of its inclusion in the distribution, but ran
>> into trouble when developing a test application with it.
>>
>> I am relatively new to TOS, and one of the things that appeals to me about
>> tosthreads is the way it permits the application developer to make blocking
>> calls within a thread. The resulting elimination of the need for many
>> callbacks seems to simplify the code.
>>
>> Thanks so much for your feedback!
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>> On 2/14/2014 4:05 PM, Eric Decker wrote:
>>
>>
>> TinyOs is a low level event driven embedded OS.  Predominately applications
>> use a combination of interrupt level and the TinyOS task level which is the
>> middle layer (tosthreads is a lower background layer).
>>
>> I am not aware of any other threaded implementations that are equivilent to
>> tosthreads.
>>
>> the question I originally asked is why do you need tosthreads?   what
>> problem are your solving.
>>
>> I understand that you are researching it.   But what problem are you trying
>> to solve and why is tosthreads a match for solving that problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Stephen Schaub <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the info about tosthreads not being maintained. That's helpful
>>> to know.
>>>
>>> I would be interested to know if there are any competitively multithreaded
>>> solutions for TOS that are being actively supported.
>>>
>>> Stephen
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/14/2014 2:33 PM, Eric Decker wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> tosthreads isn't being actively maintained.
>>>
>>> and it sounds like you have found a bug.   so you will probably have to
>>> debug it to figure out what is going on.
>>>
>>> do you have an environment where you can actively observe the machine
>>> state?  ie.  a jtag environment?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Stephen Schaub <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Eric,
>>>>
>>>> I am researching TOS threading approaches. I thought I would start with
>>>> tosthreads since it is included in the distribution.
>>>>
>>>> On 2/13/2014 10:42 PM, Eric Decker wrote:
>>>>
>>>> why are you using tosthreads?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Stephen Schaub <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I have not had success using TOSThreads to write to the Uart interface.
>>>>> So, I devised the following test.
>>>>>
>>>>> Using tinyos-2.1.2 distribution, I performed the following test with two
>>>>> telos motes:
>>>>>
>>>>> cd apps/tosthreads/apps/RadioStress
>>>>> make install,1 telosb threads bsl,/dev/ttyUSB1
>>>>>
>>>>> The mote's led's indicate that it is transmitting.
>>>>>
>>>>> cd apps/tosthreads/apps/BaseStation
>>>>> make install,2 telosb threads bsl,/dev/ttyUSB0
>>>>>
>>>>> The mote's led's indicate that it is receiving.
>>>>>
>>>>> export MOTECOM=serial@/dev/ttyUSB0:telosb
>>>>> java net.tinyos.tools.Listen
>>>>>
>>>>> Output to the console is a stream of bad packet messages:
>>>>>
>>>>> serial@/dev/ttyUSB0:115200: bad packet
>>>>> serial@/dev/ttyUSB0:115200: bad packet
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, I replace the threaded version of BaseStation with the event-based
>>>>> one:
>>>>>
>>>>> cd apps/BaseStation
>>>>> make install,2 telosb bsl,/dev/ttyUSB0
>>>>>
>>>>> Output from java net.tinyos.tools.Listen now appears correct.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone confirm this behavior? Is this a known problem with the
>>>>> BaseStation threads demo?
>>>>>
>>>>> Stephen
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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